Paul Ehrlich, famed ecologist and controversial author of The Population Bomb, died at 93 years old on March 13.

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when ...

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A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history. When you purchase through links on our ...

In human demography and population studies, “population (human)” refers to the total set of individuals of Homo sapiens occupying a defined spatial, temporal, or social frame, serving as the primary ...

Mount Kilimanjaro, as seen from Kenya (Wikimedia Commons/Sergey Pesterev) (CN) — An explosion of the human population around Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, over the past 100 years has ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...